Laura Vandervoort Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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We shred every day.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
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Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
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While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.
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My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
